Abstract
Two simple dynamic systems with cubic nonlinearity and additive Gaussian white noise are used to assess the performance and the usefulness of closure methods in nonlinear random vibration. One of the systems has a single potential well while the other has two potential wells. It is shown that the performance of closure methods is determined by the structure of the moment equations rather than the way in which these equations are closed. For the system with one potential well, any closure method is satisfactory. For the system with two potential wells, closure methods can be inaccurate irrespective of the closure level. It is also shown that moment equations can be augmented with moment inequalities to solve approximately the infinite hierarchy of moment equations.
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